Extended Reading
  • Dwight 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Rip off the fig leaf of the "family"

    Amway, "August Osage County"
    Some people say it is the American version of "Thunderstorm." Makes sense. The film shows how a family's scars and contradictions brew and ferment, and eventually explode and fall apart.
    Compared with those family ethics films that sing praises of beautiful family, this...

  • Janie 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    "August: Osage County": Love and pain are all here

    (Written by Zhi Ning on May 3, 2014)
       Home may be a harbor or hell. It can shelter and care for family members, but it may also be a prison that some people can’t avoid. Because of so many emotions and stories, most people’s favorite, most annoying and most painful things in this life are...

August: Osage County quotes

  • Violet Weston: I have an Indian in my house!

  • Little Charles Aiken: [singing to Ivy] Well, I've never been a man of many words / And there's nothing I could say that you haven't heard / But I'll sing you love songs 'till the day I die / The way I'm feeling / I can't keep it inside // I'll sing a sweet serenade whenever you're feeling sad / And a lullaby each night before you go to bed / I'll sing to you for the rest of your life / The way I'm feeling / I can't keep it inside